The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 41

Soon after this a war broke out, and everybody about the palace was very busy polishing up armour and sharpening swords, for the king and his sons were to ride at the head of the army.

Who acts: war, everybody, sons · What happens: break out, be, polish up, sharpen, ride · To what, where: armour, swords, head

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, everybody, sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 broke	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 war	det
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 broke	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 busy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 busy	cc
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 busy	nsubj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everybody	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 busy	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 busy	advmod
16	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 broke	conj
17	polishing	polish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 busy	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 polishing	compound:prt
19	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 polishing	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sharpening	cc
21	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 polishing	conj
22	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sharpening	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 king	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 king	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ride	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sons	nmod:poss
29	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ride	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ride	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 ride	mark
32	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 broke	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ride	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 army	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 army	det
38	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break out	past	a war			for the king; soon property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	everybody			busy property	tree rules
3	polish up	gerund	everybody not said here	armour			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent armour=Destination
4	sharpen	gerund	everybody not said here	swords			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
5	ride	past	king's sons		the head of the army		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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